Monday, March 20, 2017

Start Local, Represent a Community

As a goodwill ambassador and having worked at both local and international levels for over 15 years I am frequently contacted by people that are interested in joining us and becoming goodwill ambassadors. I always tell people to try to find local recognition before contacting us to get involved in international missions or international cooperation. The best way to do this is by becoming a representative in your own community for a cause or to represent local tourism or a local city (neighborhood) beautification project.

Goodwill Ambassador Ms. Isatu Timbo Speaks At The Way To Happiness International Convention In Los Angeles

Become a goodwill ambassador in your local community to gain recognition, serve as a figurehead for a business, a community organization, a town, a university, or a city. This report from Inside Jobs based on US Department of Labor statistics explains the employment outlook for goodwill ambassadors and I provided some links at the end for those interested in pursuing it further.

How to become a Goodwill Ambassador

Most Goodwill Ambassadors have no higher education and get on-the-job
training. Think about earning a Certificate or Bachelor's degree to
increase your competitiveness in the field.

Quick Stats

Salary Range: $17,000 – $44,000 Data from U.S. Department of Labor

What do Goodwill Ambassadors do?

A Goodwill Ambassador is a prominent individual in their community or profession who serves as an honorary Diplomat
between entities, like organizations, cities, and nations. If you pride
yourself on being a good friend, you might have a future as a Goodwill
Ambassador.

Common examples of Goodwill Ambassadors are Actors, Scientists, Authors, and Activists
who go on “international friendship missions” to foreign countries,
where they present gifts, offer humanitarian relief, and socialize with
their contemporaries and counterparts. Like these people, it’s your job
as a Goodwill Ambassador to represent one group of people to another for
the purpose of building friendly relationships that will be
economically, culturally, socially, or politically beneficial in the
future.

To accomplish your mission, you typically travel, attend social
functions, participate in roundtable discussions, make public
appearances, do media interviews, and lobby Legislators.

Although most Goodwill Ambassadors do humanitarian work for
organizations like the United Nations, some act as “welcome wagons,”
representing businesses to prospects. In this case, it’s your job to
find and ingratiate yourself with sales leads by presenting them with
token gifts, information, resources, etc. Either way, your job is
“making nice” as a means of promoting peace, prosperity, and fellowship.

Should I be a Goodwill Ambassador?

You should have
a
high school
degree or higher and share these traits:

Team Player:
You're able to listen, communicate, and work with tons of different people.

Trustworthy:
You are known for your personal integrity and honesty.

Social:
You're happiest working on teams or with other people.

Also known at local levels among other locals as:
Welcome-Wagon Host/Hostess

International Ambassadorships (Updated October 2018)

Update Notice: Globcal International is an international civil society organization (iCSO) promoting global citizenship, indigenous peoples, international cooperation and sustainable development for the United Nations under our stakeholdership, as of October 2018 we updated our legal requirements and procedures for new and continuing members who wish to serve as goodwill ambassadors at a professional level in benign non-state and non-governmental diplomatic affairs with international communities and corporations under the formal protocol of United Nations and best practices emulated by some of the most well known international authorities.

Globcal International began a diplomatic corps training and development program which has become standard fare for all natural persons working with global issues internationally with states abroad. The program is recognized by the United Nations internationally as a partner with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as a UNESCO partner and is collaborating with several organizations internationally.

"The formal process for the legal development of our own goodwill ambassadors is proprietary and exclusively for our own members. It is a process that involves investiture, nomination, orientation, assimilation and presentation to world leaders and international public figures resulting in letters patent and/or a letter of credence. Ambassadors are also developed through the building of their authority through notable institutions, recognitions, homologation and apostilles of documents."

New ambassadors are qualified and assimilated individually during the course of their first full year following their investiture as a lifetime member with an appointment as a goodwill ambassador at-large under full diplomatic authority while engaged in their vocation or mission. Once fully engaged ambassadors can be recommended and nominated to international orders, to heads of state for honors, pursue knighthood, be recognized by enclave nations and states, and receive a PhD equivalency in the form of Honoris Causa.

The processes can be costly, each vetting procedure may involve several FedEx packages, an attorney, several notaries and a personal visit to one of our 3000 partner centers in 120 countries before an ambassador can legally become recognized. Those joining must be able to provide documentation of a good deed for which they can be cited; recently or over the past 10 years. (Most classic deed would be rescuing a cat from a tree or another deed and then getting your photo in your local news or tv.)

New applicants should also have a diploma or an equivalency certificate from high school and be at least 45 years of age or older; OR may be bilingual and have a university degree. All new applicants must show a valid passport, a birth certificate and have a verified PayPal account. Current membership programs are described at the Globcal International blog; our exclusive development program is developed to form both local and global representative ambassadors, generally most ambassadors will be qualified to serve and work locally within their own state of residence prior to working internationally.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Goodwill Ambassadors are Honorary Representatives and much more...

A
Goodwill Ambassador is a prominent individual in his/her community or
profession who serves as an "Honorary Diplomat" between entities, like
organizations, institutions, towns, cities, or nations. If you pride
yourself on being a good friend to others and someone who initiates
change you might have a future as a "goodwill ambassador."

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira in Africa

Common
examples of goodwill ambassadors are actors, artists, authors,
athletes, advocates, activists and other prominent or well known figures
who go on “international friendship missions” to foreign countries,
where they present gifts, provide humanitarian relief, and socialize
with their contemporaries and counterparts. Like these people, it’s your
job as a goodwill ambassador to represent one group of people to
another for the purpose of building friendly cooperative mutually
beneficial relationships that will be economically, culturally,
socially, or politically beneficial in the future to both parties and
the world.

To accomplish your mission, you typically
travel, attend social functions, participate in round-table discussions,
make public appearances, involve themselves in relief projects, do
media interviews, and lobby legislators. Normally the title is given to
those who perform work on the behalf of a group working abroad but can
be used more liberally too.

Although most goodwill
ambassadors do humanitarian work for organizations like the United
Nations, some act as “welcome wagons,” representing businesses to
prospects. In this case, it’s your job to find and ingratiate yourself
with leads by presenting prospects with token gifts, information,
resources, access to benefits, complimentary promotions, etc.

What are the requirements to become a goodwill ambassador?

You should have a high school degree, associates
degree, or a certificate in global citizenship or higher and share these
most basic traits:

Team Player - You're able to listen, communicate, and work with lots of different people.

Trustworthy - You are known for your personal integrity and honesty.

Socially Responsible - You're happy working in teams or with other people for the greater good.

Communications - You can read and write in your native language professionally.

There
are other skills and traits that are relevant too, especially for
international relief work. Many of the standards and guidelines for best
practices among goodwill ambassadors internationally are emulated by
groups that routinely use prominent well-known individuals or people
especially selected by their memberships including the Muscular
Dystrophy Association, the Red Cross, Transparency International, Rotary
International, Globcal International, and the many United Nations
Organizations.

Former Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham, Goodwill Ambassador

How to become a professional goodwill ambassador?

There are many organizations and countries around the
world that want, need, or would fare well by having goodwill
ambassadors represent their friendship and cooperative interests, ideas
and projects abroad. So the career outlook is "very good" to
"excellent." Countries, states and cities often use members of their own
communities like annual beauty pageant winners, local heroes, former
politicians, upcoming politicians, or even mascots (fictional
characters). In 2008, Japan appointed 'Hello Kitty' as an ambassador of
goodwill and tourism, the mascot made over 100 high level appearances
with heads of state in subsequent years.

A president,
prime minister, governor, or mayor can appoint, commission, or recognize
a goodwill ambassador for a short-term (single event), for the course
of a year, several years, or for life as does the governor of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky upon awarding honorary colonel commissions to
noteworthy individual citizens and friends of the state.

Many
of these positions are often unpaid, in most cases they involve
attractive stipends, cooperative grants, perks, travel reimbursements
and other compensation with more prominent active organizations that
depend on these individuals to promote their work. Organizations like
the WWF, UNICEF, the IUCN, Conservation International and the Republic
of South Korea.

Yeong Chang, Goodwill Ambassador for 2018 Winter Olympics

Are there goodwill ambassador jobs available in the world today?

Sure. Governments and organizations that have
goodwill ambassadors often need to develop and re-develop these
positions based on political change or for particular special events. So
more often than not these positions are frequently vacant or
underutilized through informal relationships with celebrities or
well-known community figures that have little time to spare. Many of
these individuals are appointed and only work during a single annual
event and maintain their status inactively during the rest of the year.

Community
organizations, leaders and even individual ambassadors can be
postulated at any time for a mission, event or project in this
representation. Those who want to represent entities as goodwill
ambassadors often use the official position or title to raise their own
discretionary funds through others including friends, community leaders
and even banks that collaborate at a local level to help them succeed in
representing their common community interests.

How
good, effective and pro-active a goodwill ambassador or a community's
international cooperation department usually depends upon the individual
ambassador's personal resources, community support, commitment to the
cause, and time available. Being a goodwill ambassador can be a full or
part time job or it can be a prestigious honor that is coveted and used
infrequently, this all depends on you.

Nicholas Cage, Goodwill Ambassador for UNODC

Want some help to become a goodwill ambassador?

There is an international organization that has been
exclusively developed for cause advocates and community activists that
takes being a goodwill ambassador to a fine art and career profession.
They assist in development and placement of ambassadors in careers to
create goodwill on a global scale.

Globcal International
helps individuals become ambassadors and it assists organizations,
states, cities, small communities and tribal peoples in the development
of cooperative programs using goodwill ambassadors. As of July 2014 they
begin the operation of an extension service in the form of a resource
center for goodwill ambassadors and their potential employers through a
number of on-line social network platforms and maintains a cooperative
fellowship that comes together through their joint member programs.

Dorothy Lockheart, Goodwill Ambassador for New Brunswick

Qualify and join the club?

In
essence the organization serves to propel the professional development
of these illustrious determined people who join or are selected by the
commissioners of their organization as lifetime members of their union.
Their fellowship is cooperative and serves as a confederation or
assembly forum for goodwill ambassadors all over the world. Members gain
access to interactive courses, certification programs, a special
library collection, discourse, database of officials and the media as
well as other special benefits, services and privileges both practical
and virtually for those who engage the social media.

Globcal
provides registered members with introduction services with heads of
state or community leaders, provide diplomatic visas, credentials,
travel documents, letters patent, and embassy services in 100 countries
through an extensive network of day offices and ambassadors who are
cooperative members that assist their fellows and global citizen
travelers at airports with transportation, emergency lodging, tourism,
work assignments, and customs. They are certainly professionalizing and
making the horizon richer and more prosperous for their members by
promoting work opportunities.

You can qualify yourself as an
international goodwill ambassador now through Globcal if you have used
the title professionally and honorably anytime during your lifetime.
Depending on how much experience and work you have done you may also
have your name or biography listed in Globcal International's "Global
Citizenship Registry" in Stockholm, Sweden. ( a new project they have under development )

Those
who do qualify to become registered are listed, their names are
presented and made available to NGO directors, monarchs, presidents,
prime ministers and mayors from around the world as qualified honorary
citizens with their direct contact information, to fill the hundreds of
opportunities that exist with already known goodwill ambassadors and
global citizens. Globcal International provides their certification,
training, education, and registration services to members and
non-members alike.

Article by Ambassador
Col. David Wright. Ambassador Wright is a blog author and goodwill
ambassador working with indigenous peoples in the Amazon. The colonel is
a founder and an active commissioner working with Globcal
International. Fell free to share his articles under creative commons
credit attribute and share-alike licensing.